Knight Volunteers For War On Drugs

June 30, 1986

Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight wants to apply his considerable powers of persuasion to the war against drugs. ``It`s time to go to war,`` he said. ``We`ve been in a lot of wars... Many times we were trying to protect others. But young men fought the wars old men started. Now we have to fight the greatest war of all -- the war to save our kids.``

Knight`s comments were prompted by this month`s cocaine-related death of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias and Cleveland Browns football player Don Rogers.

``We`re fighting a monster,`` Knight said. ``It`s time we stopped chasing the (drug) boats; it`s time we started sinking them.``